In these tough times it gets harder and harder to include meat with your meals. I swear I am growing feathers I have eaten so much chicken. Pork was an option until just recently. Not sure why but the price of pork has slowly climbed be a middle sister to Beef. Ahhhhhh beef, the late great beef...I miss you. Prices of red meat has also sky rocketed! Well let me tell you a little secret...
...Stores like Shoprite and Acme discount meats everyday. What is that, you say? Thank god that these stores and others discount the meats that are approaching their sell by date. They would rather sell it to you for a discount than throw it away. The sell by date is just what it says...they have to sell the meat by that date. It is not an expiration date!!! All you have to do is put the meat in the freezer and it will last for up to 2 months.
The other day I picked up a repackaged pack of summer sausage at Shoprite. It had 14 summer sausages with bacon and only cost me $2.36. The stores discount in a number of ways. Stores like Acme put coupons on the meats while my Shoprite repackages and discounts the price. I have saved on everything from chicken to beef using these discounts. Different stores use different methods but just about all of them discount meats.
I look for white coupons at Acme, red and yellow stickers at Shoprite and coupons at Pathmark. I find that it is easy to find pork at Shoprite, just about everything at Acme and chicken most of the time at Pathmark...just thought you would like to know.
I hope that you can start saving, too.
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